After watching men’s softball teams from Sevier Heights Baptist Church, Knoxville, Tenn., successfully minister to men at four Alabama correctional facilities March 25–28, Steve Stephens knew it was something Alabama Baptist church softball players should know about.
The Sevier Heights Baptist prison ministry softball team has been ministering in Alabama for nearly 15 years and at this year’s event, more than 100 decisions were made for Christ.
That’s why Stephens, an associate in the office of men’s ministries & disaster relief for the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions, said this is a ministry “with a welcome sign and a welcome mat.”
“This ministry gives the inmates opportunities for additional recreation and relationship building with men of good influence,” he said. “If we can get enough Baptist church softball teams involved in this ministry, we can minister to a very receptive group of people almost weekly.”
Stephens said there will be a special display about the ministry set up at the Baptist Men’s Softball Tournament Aug. 6–7 in Montgomery.
For more information, e-mail him at sstephens@alsbom.org.
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